Prison vaccination programmes: the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and future challenges.

Vaccination has traditionally been one of the primary prevention activities to which most effort has been devoted in Spanish penitentiary institutions. Once again, the type 2 coronavirus pandemic causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has highlighted the importance of vaccination in the control of immunopreventable diseases. After overcoming the health emergency caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), we face the challenge of recovering the vaccination coverage we had before the pandemic, in addition to increasing the coverage of other vaccines with lesser implantation in our environment.

The Experience of Spanish Prison Nurses with the HIV Pandemic.

Introduction: This study discusses the experiences of nurses in Spanish prisons during the HIV/AIDS pandemic, emphasizing administrative changes and adaptive measures, such as the creation of the Subdirectorate General of Penitentiary Health.

Objective: We describe the experiences of nurses in Spanish penitentiary centers in the face of the HIV/AIDS.

Materials And Methods: The interpretative and phenomenological approach explored experiences between 1981 and 2023 through focus groups and convenience sampling.

Validity and reliability of an android device for the assessment of fall risk in older adult inmates.

Aim: To validate the Android device, FallSkip, as a tool to assess the fallers in older adult inmates.

Design: A cross-sectional descriptive and analytical study.

Methods: For the validation of the FallSkip, the diagnostic criterion used was the risk of having suffered a fall during the last year.

[Regulations against the Covid-19 pandemic in spanish prisons].

The pandemic caused by SARS-COVID-2 has supposed an extraordinary challenge for prisons. There is an unavoidable need to take action to stop the entry and spread of the virus, however, the measures must respect prisoners' rights and must not constitute any kind of inhuman or degrading treatment. Spanish prison authorities have published and extensive normative that has transformed life in prisons during the pandemic.

Associations and community health workers: analysis and time trends over ten years of training-action.

Objective: To analyse the profile of the persons and associations that participated in the course, quantify peer education activities and analyse their evolution.

Method: A quantitative study using an analysis of the course records from 2009 to 2018 was designed for this purpose inside mihsalud program designed to promote health amongst persons in vulnerable situations in the city of Valencia (Spain). It offers a yearly training-action course of community health workers (CHW) that is attended by persons who have been proposed by associations.

Sociodemographic, Clinical, and Therapeutic Aspects of Penitentiary Psychiatric Consultation: Toward Integration Into the General Mental Health Services.

The characteristics of mental disorders, as well as deficiencies in their treatment, must be properly defined. This was a prospective, longitudinal, observational study, in which all men referred to a penitentiary psychiatric consultation of three penitentiary centers in Spain were invited to participate. Those who consented to participation (1328) were interviewed at the baseline timepoint and at intervals for up to 3 years.

[Cardiovascular risk factors in young adults of a penitentiary center].

Objective: The quantification of the cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) in a population of young adults, allows to identify their vulnerabilities and contributes to focus on prevention strategies in a group more susceptible of changing their behavior and establishing healthier daily habits. The objectives of this work were to describe the main CVRF and estimate the risk through different models.

Methods: Observational, descriptive, analytical and crosssectional study.

[Descriptive Study of the Activities Performed By the Provincial Medical Deontology Commissions].

Aim: to describe the expedient's features those settle the medical ethics commissions of the provincial colleges (PMEC).

Material And Methodology: descriptive study, retrospective from the typology of the received claims to the PMEC between 01-06-2013 and 31-05-2014. The colleges were selected by simple stratified random sample.

Sentido de coherencia y mapa de activos para la salud en jóvenes presos de la Comunidad Valenciana en España.

Estudio realizado desde el enfoque de la salutogénesis que pretende determinar el sentido de coherencia (SOC) en jóvenes presos de la Comunidad Valenciana en España y elaborar un mapa de activos para la salud dirigido a promover la salud en esta población. Se utilizó el test "SOC-13" y un cuestionario de preguntas abiertas elaborado ad hoc, el cual autocompletaron los internos de 18 a 22 años de edad, de los tres centros penitenciarios de la región. Participaron 124 jóvenes varones (ya que no había ninguna mujer) y se recogieron variables sociodemográficas y penitenciarias.

[Changes in clinic-epidemiological characteristics of new cases of HIV-1 infection in Castellón (Spain), and its impact on delayed presentation (1987-2011)].

Objective: To describe the trend of the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of a cohort of HIV-1 infected patients in Castellón (Spain), and its impact on the delayed presentation.

Methods: Data from HIV-1 infected outpatients presenting for care for the first time between 1987 and 2011 were retrospectively analyzed.

Results: There have been significant changes in the characteristics of the 1001 newly presented patients during the period studied.

[Clinical research and prisoners: coercion and grounds to participate].

Aim: To assess the coercion perceived, the quality of the information, and the reasons that lead prisoners to participate in clinical research.

Material And Method: Descriptive and multicenter study. Information was gathered on the social, demographic and penitentiary characteristics, perceived coercion, kind of information received and reasons that lead prisoners to take part in research.

[Causes and trends of mortality in a Spanish prison (1994-2009)].

Background: There are a few mortality researches in prisons. To know this measure can to be important for take decisions of Public Health. The aim of the paper is to describe mortality and its trend in our prison.